Water once flowed on Mars
US space agency said on Saturday that Spaceship Curiosity used the drill at the end of its robotic arm to dig a tiny hole 1.6 centimeters across and 6.4 centimeters deep on the Martian surface. Further said the rover collected powder samples of crushed rock.; Rover since its landing in August of last year, Curiosity has found evidence that water once flowed on the planet Mars
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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